Angelo Errichetti

Angelo Errichetti (29 September 1928-16 May 2013) was Mayor of Camden, New Jersey from 1973 to 1981, succeeding Joseph M. Nardi Jr. and preceding Randy Primas. A corrupt politician who was nevertheless beloved by his constituents, he was indicted during Abscam.

Biography
Angelo Errichetti was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1928, the sixth of seven children born to Italian immigrants. He worked as an administrative assistant to Mayor Alfred R. Pierce after 1961 before becoming his city's purchasing agent and later its head of the Department of Public Works. From 1973 to 1981, he served as Mayor of Camden, and he put in 12-hour days to improve the economy of the city. In the Abscam case, he was caught offering undercover FBI agents posing as Arab sheikhs an entry into money counterfeiting and drug smuggling businesses, and he served 32 months in prison. He died in Ventnor City in 2013.